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The retail courts once found on Nowomiejska Street resembled today's shopping malls. In this one, the ground floor was occupied by warehouses, shops and various services while the second floor with its wooden gallery housed residential apartments. In…

Piotrkowska has always been a street representative of Łódź. On this street one was sure to find all the most important factory warehouses, but upon closer inspection one would also notice its side streets teeming with various small shops and…

At the time, Nowomiejska Street saw more commerce than any other in Łódź. Shops and service businesses occupied every nook and cranny in both the front and courts of the buildings lining this street. Thickly distributed across the space of this…

Here we see one of the many small retail courtyards animating the Old Market district, distantly reminiscent of a shopping arcade. Its broad entry archways allow for access of rather large delivery trucks .

Close to No. 27 Piotrowska Street, a porter weighed down with a load of textile wares (various bolts of cloth) walks along the gutter in the photographer's direction. A young bicyclist cruises just a few feet behind him. Piotrowska Street effervesces…

A view of the first yard of the the former brewery of brothers Gehlig. By the 1930's no beer was brewed here anymore, and the space belonging to the factory had been rented out for use as stores and warehouses.

The entrance to No. 46 Piotrkowska Street, a building which housed many firms. On the first floor, one could find the factory warehouse for Karol Steinert cotton products as well as a local branch of the Warsaw "Daily Courier" and "Illustrated…

Old Market Square as seen from Zgierska Street and the square's southwest corner. We can see a group of store fronts that today no longer exist running along the southern and eastern sides of the square. A crowd of respectable size underscores the…

Zielony (Green) Market is shown here as a lively hub of activity. In the crowd people are engaged in buying and selling goods mills around a number of free-standing booths and tables. A few folks sell their wares straight from horse carts.